Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) version 1.43

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Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) version 1.43
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Significant CHANGES since 1.34
Remarks were added in the NOTES for HP support, and for Turbo C, Turbo
C++, and MS Quick C on PCs.
Another option was added, the ASA_PRINT_MORE Printing Option, to give
more intermediate printout, i.e., the values of the best parameters and
cost function at each new acceptance state.
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Wall Street Journal
I have been told that the WSJ will mention the world-wide use of the
ASA code, in an article to appear soon. I gave examples of some
projects using ASA, but I had to insist that the relevant people would
have to be contacted previous to citing them; see the related comment
in General Information below. Of course the press has the last word on
what they will publish/interpret.
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FORTRAN?
I regularly receive requests to be able to run ASA with FORTRAN. I
cannot maintain both a C and a FORTRAN code, but there does seem to be
a genuine need to interface ASA with FORTRAN. In the NOTES are a
couple of suggestions: (1) Use f2c on FORTRAN programs; I have done
this and it works very well. (2) Try CFORTRAN to interface the C and
FORTRAN codes: (a) call FORTRAN from ASA, e.g., from cost_function(),
call a FORTRAN function that performs the actual calculation of the
cost function; (b) call ASA from FORTRAN, e.g., using the ADAPTING
section in the NOTES as a guide, call asa_main() from a FORTRAN
function. Can someone prepare templates for (a) and/or (b)? This
probably isn't easy to prepare for public release; about half a dozen
people started, but didn't complete such a project.
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sa_pvt93.ps.Z
The new reference for this preprint in ftp.caltech.edu:pub/ingber is
%A L. Ingber
%T Simulated annealing: Practice versus theory
%J Mathl. Comput. Modelling
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%D 1993
%P (to be published)
As announced previously, this is a much expanded version of the
original draft, e.g., including new ideas and calculations regarding
"quenching." In the acknowledgements, I give a sincere thanks to the
many users who read parts of previous drafts and who sent me their own
(p)reprints on simulated annealing. I'd be interested in hearing about
any systems that find the QUENCHing options as useful (lucky?) as the
ASA test problem did in this paper.
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General Information
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(p)reprints in compressed PostScript format can be retrieved via
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directory.
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Lester
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